It’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESWhen you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
More Henry James Quotes
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Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
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Don’t pass it by – the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist’s that it waits for.
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The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
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Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
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Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
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One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
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The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .
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I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
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Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
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Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
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She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
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Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
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Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
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You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
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True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
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